Romain, FrogPad has Multi touch IP. It was granted in 1998 and 4 of the modalities are critical for multi touch. We have a particular app we are interested in developing for multi touch. Would you be so kind as to contact me directly at Froginfo at frogpad com Linda
On Aug 12, 12:00 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, how about David Goldfarb's video ringtone support patches? He > > started working on those a long time ago. Originally the patches had > > several issues with them, Google was quick to jump in and point out > > what was wrong. He resolved the issues and submitted his patches again > > (over a month ago). Once the patches lacked the issues pointed out, > > what happens then? Nothing. > > David had long discussions directly with the media team and myself by > email about his patch. Last time I checked his work the UI he was > proposing was still not acceptable for inclusion in the platform. > > > It seems you don't understand. The entire ecosystem is being strangled > > by this. It's not a nice to have feature. It seems like if someone > > over there did understand, this would be a feature in Donut. If you've > > starred the feature request in the bug database you'd understand how > > angry people are about this. But I don't think anybody is even > > notified when people post "Wow! I am getting way too much email from > > having this issue starred, so I'm unstarring it". > > Wanting this feature does not mean we will add it at this point of the > development process. The same applies to all of the features the core > Android team would like to add and know would be enjoyed by many. In > this particular case, and I talked briefly with the author about it, > we also need to take into account the binary size of this feature (at > least if you guys want the final build to fit on an HTC Dream/T-Mobile > G1), the added dependency (new library) and the extra QA. This just > cannot happen for Donut. We also need to see if it's something that > makes sense to support in Android. Yes this issue was starred by 80 > people. But this number is (unfortunately) dwarfed by the number of > users of Android and we need to question the fact whether this feature > would be used by enough people to warrant its inclusion. That's true > of all features we include. Now in this particular case an Android > engineer has been actively participating on the bug report and even > took measure of the impact on batter life. Not having this feature in > Donut is not a question of us ignoring it, it's just about the fact > that it's too late in the development cycle. Period. > > > That's what you say. > > Name one significant user visible feature that > > has made its way from a non OHA member contributor from the public > > repository into Donut in Google's private repo. Not a bugfix, or a > > typo. Something visible to the user in the way that FLAC support or > > Video Ringtones or something of that ilk would be. My point is, how > > many contributions do you expect to receive when the worthy ones so > > far are still unattended to? > > FLAC was too late and video ringtones were still not in good enough > state. I just told you I am committed to accepting features and bug > fixes from the community in specific areas. I cannot point you to > features that have been merged in these areas if I don't receive > patches in the first place. I would also be happy to discuss potential > changes and their impact and relevance. Also please remember that > because a feature, even if great, is submitted it does not mean it > will make it into Android. There should be little reason for a feature > to not make it but accept the fact that we cannot accept just *any* > feature, especially considering some constraints we have to deal with > (like the firmware size limit on 1st generation phones.) > > -- > Romain Guy > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
